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Insertion of dorsal fin median, immediately behind base of ventrals: 

 the filament reaching end oi' anal fin. Scales large 5 nine scutes be 

 hind ventrals. Head 3; depth 2f. D. 14; A. 25; Lat. 1. 40; L. tr. 13. 

 Gulf of Mexico; north to Louisiana. (GiintJier.) 

 Husk-minx (iiiuthcr, vii, 401), 1868.) 



Page 273. After Stolepliorus ringens add : 

 452 (ft). S. nanus (Grd.) J. & G. 



Pale, but not translucent; sides with a broad silvery shade, but with- 

 out distinct stripe. Body slender, moderately compressed, the belly 

 ( ariuate and faintly serrate. Head compressed, conic, the snout rather 

 pointed, bluntish at tip. Maxillary extending beyond root of mandible. 

 Eye not very large. Teeth in both jaws. Pectorals and ventrals short. 

 Head 3 ; depth 5. A. 22. Southern California ; abundant. Very 

 likely the young of 8. ringem, from which it seems to be separated by 

 the more compressed body. The many specimens obtained by us at 

 San Diego were of the same size, and schools of immature anchovies, 

 uniform in size, are rarely seen. 



(AV//W///.S nanus Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. x, 334, 1858.) 



Page 273. After Stolephorus hiulcus, which is probably identical with 

 N. brtncni. read; 



454 (I). S. mitcliilli (C. & V.) J. & G. 



Very pale, translucent, the silvery lateral stripe very narrow and not 

 \\cll defined, scarcely wider than pupil; snout and caudal yellowish. 

 with many dark points; middle line of back with a continuous stripe 

 formed of dark points; dark points along base of anal and behind it. 

 Body rather short and deep, compressed, belly slightly serrated; snout 

 short, not longer than pupil; eye very large; maxillary extending beyond 

 root of mandible, about to margin of opercle; both jaws with distinct 

 teeth: elieeks broadly triangular. Anal long and high, its base .Tr in 

 body; its first ray nearly under middle of dorsal. Pectorals long, 1 \ in 

 head. Head 3* ; depth t. J). 14 : A. LMi; Lai. 1. about :$7. L. L' A inches. 

 Atlantic coast; abundant from Cape Cod to Southern Texas. 



(Eiitirinilis mitcliilli Cuv. A- V;il. xxi, 50 (not of (iiint lirr) : l-'.iiijninlix rittiiliix Stoivr, 

 llisl. I'i-li. M:iss. :t-ll, pi. \xvii, t'. ildiol ('lu/nn rillnlil Milch.): .Ionian A CilliiTt. 

 I 'roc. I". S. N;il. .Mils. I --_': .' ^ni/niiilm <linl<-<int ( 'o|>c, Ti ans. Am. I'liilos. Soc. 1866, 

 4<>f> (l:ist i:iy of dorsal s:iid to lie in tVcmi nf first of anal). 



On i>age i'7(i, after A.lepido8auru8 ferox, add: 



i".. \. ;rsriilapiiis Hcan. 

 Closely related to .l./wo.r, did'ering chiefly in the much shoiler i>ec- 



